Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:28:29 +0000 (UTC) From: Joe Morris <jcmorrisnospame.org> Subject: Re: Running Lights
Bob <uctraingNOSPAMnospamanet.com> writes: >BTW - even if you leave the headlights in the on position with >your car programmed the way it is right now, they will shut off >when you shut off the car, so you can get the effect of DRL's >right now simply by leaving the lights in the on position. That way >you still have the ability to shut them off if you like (to sit >idling with parking lights, etc). One other reason (at least for some of us) to want the ability to kill the headlamps while the engine is running: it's considered to be very impolite to approach a guard station at night with the headlights on. It makes it harder for the guards to see inside and around the cars, and thus irritates them ... not a good idea when the guards are armed with official gov'mt weapons which are *not* loaded with blanks... And for those of us involved in astronomy, one *NEVER* drives near an active observing site with the headlights on; for anyone planning to attend a sky party changing the headlight programming to permit dousing the headlights is an absolute necessity. Joe Morris